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Perceptual JPEG encoder
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Is the project dead and thus not to be relied on going forward? #242

Open al-tim opened 6 years ago

al-tim commented 6 years ago

The reason for the question is the absence of any updates in months and no releases despite some fixes were made since the last release.

kekePower commented 6 years ago

Good question and I'm wondering the same thing.

mdelarioja commented 6 years ago

I get the best results from guetzli, so I really hope the project is not dead.

Edit: typo

magicgoose commented 6 years ago

well, at the moment it's only marginally better than mozjpeg (if at all), but orders of magnitude slower, and they both will likely become obsolete by the time an image format based on AV1 is ready (which is probably less than 1-2 years).
so if it was decided to abandon it, I could totally understand the decision.

jyrkialakuijala commented 6 years ago

We have been working mostly on pik -- to incorporate all experience from guetzli and our other efforts into a single algorithm and data format. Pik is similar (according to ssimulacra) or better (according to butteraugli) in compression density to photos with AV1, but simpler and a lot faster to decode.

https://encode.ru/threads/2814-Psychovisual-analysis-on-modern-lossy-image-codecs?p=55041&viewfull=1#post55041

doterax commented 3 years ago

For my work I have needed to recompres a lot of JPEGs, and I started supporting unofficial fork of guetzli here